- Kochab (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
KOCHAB (Beta Ursae Minoris). Kochab, an obscure Arabic name that might simply mean “star,” is just barely the second brightest and thus appropriately the Beta star in Ursa Minor, the Smaller Bear, and represents the top front bowl star of the Little Dipper.
- Lake Tanganyika (Wikipedia)
Lake Tanganyika (/ˌtæŋɡənˈjiːkə, -ɡæn-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-; Kirundi: Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world’s longest freshwater lake. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC), Burundi, and [Zambia](/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia/—with Tanzania (46%) and the DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.